If there was a playoff system for College Football, what would happen to all the sponsored bowls?
If there was a playoff system for College Football, what would happen to all the sponsored bowls? Playoffs would have to be managed by the NCAA, so what happens to all the big bucks the bowls bring in for sponsors? The sponsors are the ones doing all the event management and planning. They pay the bill.
Just throwing this out there for discussion. Was a hot topic in a discussion we had last night.
I think there should be an eight team playoff for the six major conference winners and then two at large teams. Then, for everyone who doesn't qualify for the playoff, the other bowl games would still happen. For example: Auburn and Nebraska would neither be good enough for the eight team playoff, but they would still both get to play in the Cotton Bowl. Same thing for the Toledo's and Southern Miss's of the NCAA. They still get to go to the PapaJohn's.com Bowl or whatever.
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liver_snatch said :
March 30, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Playoffs won't happen… they aren't going to shoot the golden goose…
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Angry Daisy said :
March 30, 2009 at 11:30 pm
they could do a hybrid system with playoff games for 1 v 4 and 2 v 3. Keep the bowls (no way are we getting rid of them, too much money involved) and people would be much more satisfied. A true playoff system (what we should have) would have to replace the bowl games. A hybrid wouldn't.
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ekpfins said :
March 30, 2009 at 11:40 pm
I think there should be an eight team playoff for the six major conference winners and then two at large teams. Then, for everyone who doesn't qualify for the playoff, the other bowl games would still happen. For example: Auburn and Nebraska would neither be good enough for the eight team playoff, but they would still both get to play in the Cotton Bowl. Same thing for the Toledo's and Southern Miss's of the NCAA. They still get to go to the PapaJohn's.com Bowl or whatever.
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oJmHo said :
March 31, 2009 at 12:07 am
Each game would still be called by its bowl name. For example you draw up a bracket and the first round games would be the Fiesta Bowl, the Rose Bowl, Cotton Bowl, etc. leading all the way to the finals and then the championship game. Each year it would rotate so that each bowl will get a chance to recieve more media coverage.
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ttfilm06 said :
March 31, 2009 at 12:37 am
IF there were a playoff……..the sponsored bowls would go on as always and the ones with greater esteem, such as the Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, etc would be used in the playoff games, while the lesser bowls would be left as they are today, just lesser bowls which really wouldn't be effected by the playoff at all, as today they aren;t effected by the higher rated bowls either. There is room for all. They would take the bowls with the most esteem and pay-off and rotate them in the playoff format. Each could be at a diff level (i.e. quarterfinal, semi and final) every year to even it out…simple. Will it happen, prob not, but it would be better for fans. The argument about putting too much educational stress on the players is pure bs as look how late the Championship game is this year Jan. 8th !! They'll stretch it out as long as they can to make more.
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▒GO FLAMЄS▒ said :
March 31, 2009 at 1:21 am
They will try their best not to let that happen!!
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OSU vs Florida game is fixed to avoid the flop of bowl system!! Florida will win!! [spy reporter from NCAA]
look4tay said :
March 31, 2009 at 1:59 am
They should make the playoff games themselves bowl games. They don't have to get rid of the bowls. Just rotate the bowls every year, getting a different playoff game every year, but we need playoffs more than bowl sponsors. The schools make enough money as it is off of tuition.
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Adam L said :
March 31, 2009 at 2:45 am
I think the BCS Bowls still happen, they just become the finals and semi finals, etc with each on rotating on a yearly basis as to which is the championship, which is the semis, etc. and I see no reason why the rest of the non BCS bowls couldnt just continue to happen. Put the top 8 in the playoffs use the BCS bowls as the play off games, give the sponsers their money, and play the rest of the bowls too
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Chuckles the Jackassed Goofball said :
March 31, 2009 at 3:28 am
those games would be the playoff games but still retain their bowl monikers
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Brad NotPitt said :
March 31, 2009 at 4:12 am
Yes, the bowls are paying the bills.
However, people world wide are so frustrated with the NCAA system that we are screaming for a playoff/true champion system.
The NCAA must find a comprimise.
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stormer_xxi said :
March 31, 2009 at 4:19 am
Some would still exist, they'd just be played between teams not going to the playoffs.
I'd imagine te playoffs would be small: either 4 or 8 teams. So you could have a good bowl game with top 10 teams.
They'd probably use the big bowl games (Sugar, Rose, Orange, Fiesta) as playoff games.
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bigvol662004 said :
March 31, 2009 at 4:46 am
Nothing would happen if the sponsors were allowed to advertise at ALL the playoff sites. The top paying bowls game sites could serve as playoff sites and everyone else could still go to a bowl and have that kind of relationship intact.
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bj said :
March 31, 2009 at 4:57 am
How about #2 vs # 3. The winner of that game plays #1 for the "TRUE" national title. That way you can still keep all your bowl games and everyone is happy and no one is left out of the championship.
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ndmagicman said :
March 31, 2009 at 5:14 am
Nothing would happen to them. Use the bowl games as the playoff games leading up to championship game which could be rotated city to city and bowl name to bowl name (much the same as now). Also the sponsors are not the only ones making big bucks on the bowl games. The NCAA and the schools involved get a hefty chuck also.
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